
hi friends,
The weather is good for something spicy,so I cooked my favorite, Mouth watering Kerala delicacy Toddy shop fish curry and mashed tapioca, and decided to update the post with some new images.

The Kerala cuisine is famous for its spicy and hot foods and the Toddy shop fish curry and mashed tapioca (kallu shappu style meen curry and kappa vevichathu) is one of the most demanding foods of Kerala,May be my non Kerala friends thinking what is this toddy shops.Toddy shops are small drinking establishments where palm toddy, a mildly alcoholic beverage made from the sap of palm trees served along with food.The food served with toddy is very spicy,and the main dish is tapioca with fish curry.


The toddy shop food is very spicy So that the customers may ask for more toddy to cool their flaming tongues.My curry is not that much spicy, but taste very good and finger licking.So here is the recipe of Kerala special toddy shop style fish curry and mashed tapioca.enjoy it………….


Prep Time | 20 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
Servings |
serving
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- 1 kg tapioca Fresh
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
- salt as needed
- water
- coconut oil
- 5 nos shallot
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 1 - 2 nos red chili whole
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
Ingredients
For the fish curry:-
For preparing tapioca:-
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- Preparing fish curry:-
- clean and cut fish in to medium thick pieces.Soak gamboog in 1/4 cup warm water.
- soak red chili and Kashmeeri chili in hot water for minimum one hour.
- clean and wash shallots.add the cleaned shallot in to a mixer and crush it well.
- grind the chili in to a fine paste,add turmeric and coriander powder in to it and grind again and make a fine paste.
- heat oil in a fish curry pot, add curry leaves and saute well.
- add chopped garlic and ginger saute well until raw smell goes
- then add crushed shallots in to it.saute well until shallots become light brown(please don,t let the shallots burn you will get a bitter taste).
- then add the grounded paste saute till oil comes up
- then add gamboog and sufficient amount of warm water,( do not add too much water the curry should be medium thick)add sufficient salt.let it boil.
- Then add fish pieces in to it.Cook in a medium flame.once the fish cooked , switch off stove.
- heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.add curry leaves.fry it and pour in to the gravy.
- keep aside for 30 minutes.serve with kappa.(if you want you can remove the gamboog from curry if you don't like more sour taste)
- Preparing Tapioca
- peel the skin of tapioca and cut in to medium cube size pieces,wash well.add cleaned tapioca in to a cooking vessel,add sufficient water,turmeric and salt;cook till it become soft,drain water completely.mash gently and keep aside.
- heat oil in a pan splutter mustard seeds,add curry leaves and shallot,fry well and add this to the mashed tapioca.mix well and immediately cover with the lid
- serve with fish curry.
Yummy.
Thanks Mr.Vkchandra
Shappu Curry is getting more famous now a days among Malayalees.
exactly Mr.Nishanth.
Good…samathichirikkunu
Thank you Rajesh